teleguidingn.
/ˈtɛlᵻˌɡʌɪdɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈtɛləˌɡaɪdɪŋ/, West African English /ˌtɛliˈɡaidin/ 1. The action or practice of remotely controlling or directing a machine or device, esp. a missile. Now rare.
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1956 Missiles & Rockets Nov. 58 At 42,000 feet the pilot..will actuate the launching of the missile and start its teleguiding.
1964 N. Freeling Double-barrel iv. v. 128 ‘And the aeroplane?’ ‘Oh that. I built it. We've used it for various experiments; teleguiding and so on.’
1998 5th Internat. Symp. Exper. Robotics 1997 399 It includes the control electronics hardware and the software required..for on-ground teleguiding.
2. figurative. The action or practice of indirectly or unofficially controlling someone or something that is ostensibly independent. Now chiefly West African.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > [noun] > aim or aiming > controlling from a distance
teleguidance1954
teleguiding1965
1965 Nigerian Opinion Dec. 8 But this is not simple foreign ‘teleguiding’, rather it is the logical economic policy flowing from the interests of Nigeria's political class.
1975 Manhattan (Kansas) Mercury 18 Mar. a4/3 There are, it is known, certain political opponents of this regime in jail, people often called ‘teleguided leftists’, although who does the ‘teleguiding’ is never alleged.
1994 J. I. Dibua in L. A. Thompson Democracy, Democratization & Afr. xii. 193 The extent of the teleguiding of the constitution drafting process was such that..the New Nigerian..decried the ‘sordidly right wing’ character of the CA [= Constituent Assembly].
2011 M. Atanga Anglophone Cameroon Predicament 192 This teleguiding of justice by government is unknown to Anglophones.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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